{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-athletes-historical",
 "id": "fun-athletes-historical",
 "title": "Sports Legends of the Past",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Sports",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Famous athletes who are no longer living, and what they are remembered for.",
 "tags": [
  "sports",
  "athletes",
  "history"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Athlete",
 "backLabel": "Remembered for",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Jesse Owens",
   "Won four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 Olympics"
  ],
  [
   "Jackie Robinson",
   "Broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers"
  ],
  [
   "Babe Ruth",
   "Baseball slugger and pitcher, a New York Yankees star of the 1920s"
  ],
  [
   "Lou Gehrig",
   "Yankees first baseman known as the Iron Horse"
  ],
  [
   "Roberto Clemente",
   "Pirates outfielder, 3,000 hits, and a great humanitarian"
  ],
  [
   "Hank Aaron",
   "Baseball home run king for decades, with 755 career homers"
  ],
  [
   "Willie Mays",
   "Baseball star known for amazing catches"
  ],
  [
   "Muhammad Ali",
   "Heavyweight boxing champion who called himself the Greatest"
  ],
  [
   "Wilma Rudolph",
   "Won three gold medals in running at the 1960 Olympics"
  ],
  [
   "Jim Thorpe",
   "Olympic gold medalist in 1912 and football and baseball star"
  ],
  [
   "Althea Gibson",
   "First Black player to win a Grand Slam tennis title (1956)"
  ],
  [
   "Arthur Ashe",
   "Tennis star who won Wimbledon in 1975"
  ],
  [
   "Bill Russell",
   "Boston Celtics center who won 11 NBA titles"
  ],
  [
   "Wilt Chamberlain",
   "Basketball center who once scored 100 points in an NBA game"
  ],
  [
   "Kobe Bryant",
   "Los Angeles Lakers star with five NBA titles"
  ],
  [
   "Pele",
   "Brazilian soccer star who won three World Cups"
  ],
  [
   "Diego Maradona",
   "Argentine soccer star of the 1980s"
  ],
  [
   "Johan Cruyff",
   "Dutch soccer star and thinker of 'total football'"
  ],
  [
   "Walter Payton",
   "Chicago Bears running back nicknamed Sweetness"
  ],
  [
   "Jim Brown",
   "Football running back and star of the 1950s-60s"
  ],
  [
   "Vince Lombardi",
   "Green Bay Packers coach; the Super Bowl trophy bears his name"
  ],
  [
   "Gordie Howe",
   "Hockey star known as Mr. Hockey"
  ],
  [
   "Joe DiMaggio",
   "Yankees outfielder with a 56-game hitting streak in 1941"
  ],
  [
   "Ty Cobb",
   "Early baseball star with a high batting average"
  ],
  [
   "Cy Young",
   "Pitcher with 511 wins; the best pitcher award is named for him"
  ],
  [
   "Satchel Paige",
   "Pitcher in the Negro leagues and later the majors"
  ],
  [
   "Josh Gibson",
   "Negro leagues catcher called the Black Babe Ruth"
  ],
  [
   "Honus Wagner",
   "Early baseball shortstop; his card is one of the most famous"
  ],
  [
   "Joe Louis",
   "Heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949"
  ],
  [
   "Jack Johnson",
   "First Black heavyweight boxing champion (1908)"
  ],
  [
   "Bobby Jones",
   "Golfer who won the Grand Slam in 1930"
  ],
  [
   "Seabiscuit",
   "A racehorse who became a Depression-era hero"
  ],
  [
   "Secretariat",
   "Racehorse who won the 1973 Triple Crown"
  ],
  [
   "Man o' War",
   "Famous racehorse of the 1920s"
  ],
  [
   "Bill Walsh",
   "NFL coach known for the West Coast offense"
  ],
  [
   "Babe Didrikson Zaharias",
   "Won Olympic golds in track in 1932 and became a champion golfer"
  ],
  [
   "Sonja Henie",
   "Norwegian figure skater with three Olympic golds"
  ],
  [
   "Paavo Nurmi",
   "Finnish distance runner, a star of the 1920s"
  ],
  [
   "Emil Zatopek",
   "Czech runner who won three golds in 1952"
  ],
  [
   "Abebe Bikila",
   "Ethiopian runner who won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot"
  ],
  [
   "Johnny Weissmuller",
   "Olympic swimmer who later played Tarzan"
  ],
  [
   "Duke Kahanamoku",
   "Hawaiian swimmer and the father of modern surfing"
  ],
  [
   "Gertrude Ederle",
   "First woman to swim the English Channel (1926)"
  ],
  [
   "Pat Summitt",
   "Tennessee women's basketball coach with many wins"
  ],
  [
   "Lou Brock",
   "Baseball base-stealing star"
  ],
  [
   "Mickey Mantle",
   "Yankees slugger of the 1950s and 60s"
  ],
  [
   "Ted Williams",
   "Red Sox hitter, the last to hit .400 in a season (1941)"
  ],
  [
   "Roger Bannister",
   "First person to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)"
  ]
 ]
}